From Red to Green: Synthesizing research to create a metric of species conservation success for multiple end-users (Open KE Fellowship)

从红色到绿色：综合研究为多个最终用户创建物种保护成功的指标（开放 KE 奖学金）

• 批准号: NE/R002614/1
• 负责人: Molly Grace
• 金额: $ 4.38万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FR002614%2F1
• 关键词: Red; Green; Synthesizing; research; create

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species plays a fundamental role in documenting and monitoring the status of biodiversity worldwide and is the respected "go-to" global repository of scientifically-accurate information on species. It is an invaluable guide for conservation practitioners around the world, and has also been used to help guide businesses in their plans for mitigating impacts on threatened species. The Red List is founded on NERC-funded research and reflects species' risk of extinction and collapse, as well as how this risk has changed over time. However, while a genuine improvement in extinction risk should be celebrated as a conservation success, it may only be a first step towards achievement of a more ambitious conservation goal. Therefore, an IUCN Green List of species has been proposed to document all dimensions of conservation success, including species function within the ecosystem, and incentivise conservation action towards full recovery and preventing future declines. The Green List will become part of the existing Red List, providing crucial new information within the well-established Red List framework. Once it has been thoroughly tested and refined through this proposed fellowship, the Green List will provide an easy-to-understand, scientifically sound scoring system that communicates how close a given species is to its conservation optimum, as well as how past conservation actions have contributed to species recovery and what the expected outcome will be if those conservation actions continue, change, or are stopped (counterfactual scenarios). The University of Oxford, which will host me during this fellowship, has been carrying out NERC-funded research on the role of species in ecosystem function and counterfactual approaches to assessing conservation success. I will translate these new scientific advances to create a Green Listing protocol in a form that is useful to stakeholders including governments, businesses, and NGOs. This will include: testing initial protocols on Green Listing on a wide variety of species and taxonomic groups in partnership with IUCN Species Specialist Groups; contributing to user guidelines for Green Listing of species; helping to adapt the protocol by incorporating feedback from testing, Specialist Groups and the IUCN Green List Task Force; and leading the preparation of communication materials and knowledge exchange products on the concept. The United Nations has declared 2011-2020 to be the "Decade on Biodiversity" and as such has identified many biodiversity targets that rely on an objective evaluation of species' conservation status. The Green List would provide the framework to evaluate conservation status in a scientifically sound, easily understood way. The Green List is an ambitious step forward in measuring conservation success, mirroring the ambitious and forward-thinking nature of the Decade on Biodiversity. The UK has long been on the forefront of conservation science and the British government has invested in conservation policy and actions with global impact. The Green List will follow in that tradition. This project, with its basis in best practice in conservation science and the goal of reaching conservation managers and policymakers worldwide, truly reflects NERC's vision "to place environmental science at the heart of responsible management of our planet". The opportunity to interact with other Knowledge Exchange Fellows, who bring expertise in the areas of business, policymaking, and more, will greatly increase the potential impact of the Green List by providing opportunities to share this work with end-users in the business and policy sectors as well as with those directly involved in on-the-ground conservation.

世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录在记录和监测全球生物多样性状况方面发挥着重要作用，是受人尊敬的物种科学准确信息的全球知识库。它是世界各地保护从业者的宝贵指南，也被用来帮助指导企业制定减轻对受威胁物种影响的计划。 红色名录建立在NERC资助的研究基础上，反映了物种灭绝和崩溃的风险，以及这种风险如何随着时间的推移而变化。然而，虽然灭绝风险的真正改善应该被庆祝为保护成功，但这可能只是实现更雄心勃勃的保护目标的第一步。因此，世界自然保护联盟提出了一份绿色物种清单，以记录保护成功的所有方面，包括生态系统中的物种功能，并激励保护行动，以实现全面恢复和防止未来的衰退。绿色清单将成为现有红色清单的一部分，在既定的红色清单框架内提供重要的新信息。一旦通过拟议的奖学金进行了彻底的测试和完善，绿色名单将提供一个易于理解的，科学合理的评分系统，该系统将传达给定物种与其保护最佳状态的接近程度，以及过去的保护行动如何促进物种恢复，以及如果这些保护行动继续，改变或停止（反事实情景），预期的结果将是什么。牛津大学将在这次奖学金期间接待我，一直在进行NERC资助的关于物种在生态系统功能中的作用的研究，以及评估保护成功的反事实方法。我将把这些新的科学进步转化为一种对利益相关者（包括政府、企业和非政府组织）有用的形式，以创建一个绿色上市协议。这将包括：与自然保护联盟物种专家组合作，测试关于各种物种和分类组的绿色清单的初步议定书;为物种绿色清单用户指南作出贡献;通过纳入测试、专家组和自然保护联盟绿色清单工作队的反馈意见，帮助调整议定书;领导编写关于这一概念的宣传材料和知识交流产品。联合国已宣布2011-2020年为“生物多样性十年”，并因此确定了许多依赖于对物种保护状况进行客观评估的生物多样性目标。绿色名录将提供一个框架，以科学合理、易于理解的方式评估保护状况。绿色清单是衡量保护成功的一个雄心勃勃的步骤，反映了生物多样性十年的雄心勃勃和前瞻性。英国长期以来一直处于保护科学的前沿，英国政府投资于具有全球影响力的保护政策和行动。绿色名单将遵循这一传统。该项目以保护科学的最佳实践为基础，并以覆盖全世界的保护管理者和政策制定者为目标，真正反映了NERC的愿景“将环境科学置于负责任的地球管理的核心”。与其他知识交流研究员互动的机会，他们带来了商业、政策制定等领域的专业知识，通过提供与最终用户分享这项工作的机会，将大大增加绿色名单的潜在影响。商业和政策部门以及直接参与实地保护的人员。

项目成果

Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches

建立稳健、可行的反事实和情景，以使用推理方法评估物种保护干预措施的影响

• DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109259
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Biological Conservation
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Grace M

New online training course launched for IUCN Green Status of Species

为 IUCN 绿色物种状况推出新的在线培训课程

• DOI: 10.1017/s0030605322001016
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Oryx
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Grace M

The Impact of Spatial Delineation on the Assessment of Species Recovery Outcomes

• DOI: 10.3390/d14090742
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 期刊: Diversity
• 作者: M. Grace;H. Akçakaya;E. Bennett;M. J. Boyle;C. Hilton‐Taylor;M. Hoffmann;Daniel Money;A. Prohaska;Rebecca E. Young;R. Young;B. Long

Reversing the Decline in a Threatened Species: The Black-Faced Spoonbill Platalea minor

扭转受威胁物种的衰退：黑面琵鹭 Platalea 小

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Diversity
• 作者: Cano-Alonso LS

The IUCN Green Status of Species: A Call for Mediterranean Botanists to Contribute to This New Ambitious Effort.

• DOI: 10.3390/plants11192592
• 发表时间: 2022-10-01
• 期刊: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)